The Europe of
the peoples could not handle the Coronavirus. The political configuration of
the State, as conceived and developed by the Modern Age — Spain's case was
historically paradigmatic for Europe and the rest of the world, being the first
and most competent political organization on the planet in the last third of
the 15th century — was shown during the COVID pandemic to be absolutely
fundamental, essential, and irreplaceable. A supranational institution capable
of replacing the State has not yet emerged. However, undoubtedly, throughout
the 21st century, that global governing entity will arise, and the States we
know today will be less powerful and perhaps entirely irrelevant and inert,
that is, powerless.
This ongoing
battle between the Europe of nation-states and the Europe of the people, over
the past few years, has highlighted, with the onset of the Coronavirus, the
extraordinary deficiencies of any human society not politically articulated as
a State. Politics is the organization of freedom, that is, the administration
of power. We have said this many times. The friends of commerce, financially
stimulated by Protestant hegemony, in their eagerness to dissolve national
political borders to circulate freely exempt from taxes and state inspections
that control their predatory interests, in their purpose to denature countries,
literatures, cultures, societies, and customs, in their aspirations to make
people — naïve and happy — believe that there are no borders or limits, in
their commercial design mirage, according to which "the land yields its
fruits for all," poetically said Lorca against Pío XI, they have forgotten
that the land also yields its viruses for all.
And so, almost unexpectedly and suddenly, borders sprouted like thistles for Europe. Democracies, despite their postmodernity, became ...
